Blacking-brush dauber.



B. BARBOLLA.

BLAGKING BRUSH DAUBBR'Q APPLICATION III-B1) KAY 11', 190 5.

PATBNTED mac. 5,1905.

' 4s porous material 4, which may be of felt or.

STATES PATENT ()FFICE. BONIFAQIQ BARBCLLA O F sAN ranncisco, cA'L-IFORNIA. BLACKINQG-IBRUSQH DAU BER.

To all whom/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BONIFAoIo BARBOLLA,

a citizen of S-pain,.resid ing in the city and 1 county of San Francisco, Stateof California,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Blacking-Br'ush Daubers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for applying-blacking or other paste to surfaces.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

v It consists of a substantially hollow cylindrical head having a suitable handle and a filling of soft yielding material placed within this head. A'cap of felt or other soft material covers the open end and the inclosed filling, and a clamping ring is fitted around the device ,to hold the softcover in place.

:Brus'hes, technically called daubers are provided for applying blac'kingv and similar and so-hard as to be of little use .quir ed purpose.

I pastes to shoes previous to thepolis'hing with larger brushes. These daubers when made of Ibr-ist'les soon become filled with the paste for the re- :It is the 'obj'ecto'frmy invention to provide 1 an improved device in which ,the'soft or pol. 'oussurface can be 're'movedand changed whenever it becomes saturated and hard The-apparatus as I have shown it consists I -'of-a substantially cylindrical head A, having one end closed andhafing a handle2 secured thereto-andofsutficient length for con'venient manipulation. Within the open end of 1 the device is placeda filling of cotton, lint, 3 felt, or other suitable flexibleand'sufii'ciently 1 elastic materiah'as Ishown at- 3. Over this material is fitted an outer soft, flexible, and F other suitableor equivalent material. This coveringis sufiicientlylarger than the diameter of the part At extend down the sidesoff "this part. This part A-has flanges *pro3ect- 'ing at each end and adapted to receive a ring "5 between the flanges This ring is made iarge enough :tOlfit over the cylinder and toinclose the covering material 4, the edges of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 11, 1905. Serial No. 259,836.

which are thus located between thering and Patented. Dec. 5, 1905.

the cylinder. [he ring is preferably made of sufliciehtly elastic metal and enough larger than the size of the cylinder to be easily slipped over the flanges and over the covering material 4. One end of the ring is slidable inside .of the other end. The exterior end of the ring has a socket 6 formed upon it, and a similar socket 7 is formed or fixed-to the portion of the ring which is slidable inside of the-part just mentioned and at a sufficient distance from the socket f3, so that by drawing the two sockets toward each other the parts. of the ring will slide upon each other until the ring.

has been closed to clamp the outer covering 4 firmly in place. In order to secure the parts and lock them when thus fitted, Iemploy a staple or equivalent locking device, as shown at '8. The ends of this staple are adapted to enter the sockets i3 and 7, and the .bight of the staple passes over the radially-projecting handle, with the legs one upon each side of the handle, and thus adapted to hold the ringin such position as to clamp the covering material 4' firmly in place, while the handle passing between the 'legslof the staple prevents the parts from turning around and becoming displaced. It will be seen that from this construction it is easy to remove the staple, the

ring, the flexible clover, and the filling material and to substitutenew material and cover Whenever necessary, thus maintaining the dauber in an operative condition, as'the rigid" portions are particularly undesirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 2. A device of the character described, said deviceiincluding a hollow head closed at one end and having annular projecting flanges, a 'fillingiof soft material within the head, a felt cover for the openend of said head adapted to extend down the sides, a compressible ring inclosing the edges of the covering betweenthe flanges.- sockets 'fixedto the ring and a Y staple fitting said sockets andretaining the ring mits compressed condition.

3. A device of thecharacter described, said device including a hollow cylindrical head closed at on a filling of e end and having annular flanges, soft material, a fibrous covering 5 extending over the open end and overlapping the sides of adapted to the container, a compressible ring inclose the edges of the fibrous covering between the flanges, sockets carried by the ring. a staple fitting said sockets when I0 the ring ha 5 been compressed, and a handle my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses'. BONIFACIO BARBOLLA.

\Vitnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, HENRY P. TmooU. 

